Up until now, we’ve only seen video streaming capabilities with Google Cast, through devices like Chromecast or Android TV. Google Cast is now getting music streaming capabilities, allowing users to stream music directly from phones, laptops and tablets to Google Cast-enabled speakers. In order to make this happen, Google has partnered with …

Personal genetics company 23andMe has launched in the UK, analysing customer’s DNA for genetic risk factors for conditions including Alzheimer’s Disease and hereditary cancers. From a simple saliva sample, more than 100 detailed genetic reports are generated and stored in an online database. It is important to mention that …

French computer science student Owen Cornec created WikiGalaxy, a special Wikipedia browser that visualizes the website as a 3D galaxy, each star representing an article, related entries forming clusters of stars; clicking a star loads the entry itself on a left-hand panel and links to relevant articles on the right. There’s also a “fly-mode” …

Internet and advertising cannot be dissociated. websites have to make money somehow. And the way they do make money is rather ugly, isn’t it? These banners are most probably the ugliest tool someone could use to make money. I mean, they are literally ugly, since, most of the time, they distort the webpage, adding non-matching elements and colors, …

Last week, Google launched its new standalone email app, Inbox. However, not everyone was granted access to download it, since it is based on an invite-only model. Still, some clever folks on the web published a slight workaround that may grant you immediate access to it. However, you will still need somebody with access to Inbox for this …

Android 5.0 Lollipop is around the corner. We’re on for a special treat this time around, since it looks much different than all previous versions of Android thanks to a significantly updated design language. That’s not all: default app runtime has also been tweaked/improved. Big headlines, you’ll say. After further reading, we found out in …

When the new Inbox application by Gmail was announced a few days ago, I got so trigger-happy in sending the email requesting an invitation that I requested the invite twice from my personal Gmail and from my Business Google Apps account (more on that last one later). But I had been through this experience before (Ingress, Google Gallery…), and …

Let us make it quick. As quick as the Google announcement. Without any sort of special event, Google has just announced the Motorola-made Nexus 6 smartphone running Android 5.0 Lollipop. This announcement comes at the traditionally expected time of the year, and in pretty much the same fashion the Nexus 5 was announced. The new phone features …

Android L, AKA Lollipop is here. And of course, it comes along the freshly announced Nexus 6 and Nexus 9. And of course, it also comes with a bunch of built-in improvements and added features to make the Android experience even more enjoyable. But we did spot one extremely attractive feature that will maybe drive new users to Android. Google …

We have hundreds of daily interactions through a growing number of mobile messaging apps: WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook, Line, WeChat, Hangouts, Yo, and so forth. Unfortunately, this also means that our conversations are spread across more apps than ever: some of our friends still use SMS, others only communicate through WhatsApp, others are much …

A perfect world for me is one where -among other things of course- I don’t have to upgrade my phone every few months. And the good news is the modular chameleon that might be the ultimate portable gadget is finally here. Meet Google Project Ara. It does look likewise: our mobile phones just won’t be one single piece of gadgetry, in the near …

In an nutshell, Google has introduced something called Android One, some kind of standard whereby it defines minimum specs for all smartphones wanting to claim the Android One branding. For instance, immediately after the official announcement by Google in India last week, three Android One phones were introduced on the Indian market (produced …

Google has begun rolling out a new, feature-rich layout for the Google Play store on Android, inspired by its new Material Design philosophy; the new UI language already landed for Google’s Docs, Sheets and Slides services on the web, while we’ve seen a revamp teased for Chrome OS. What is it? Well in a nutshell, everything looks brighter …

Announced at Google I/O 2014 last month, Android mirroring has now arrived on the Chromecast. What is it all about? It means you can now see a parallel projection of your phone or tablet display on your TV, going through your apps and anything else, just in a bigger form. Steps to perform this are pretty simple: you’ll just have to launch the …